A very interesting read, especially for people who wonder at how same-gender orientation “works” within traditional Christian (in this case Catholic) culture. There are certainly some hard/harsh moments, but also quite a few gems. Indeed, there was one section that I found so compelling (re: the heterosexism of religion and Divine homophilia vs heterophilia) that I may focus on it in doctoral studies in the future.

Obviously, not a book for everyone…but it certainly gave me a few things to think about.

This reviewer gave me 4 stars out of 5. A little disappointing not to get 5 stars, since the book gave the guy an idea he thought about doing a doctorate in, but I’ll take it! 🙂

Please, if you’re thinking about doing a Ph.D. or Th.D. on a topic related to Gay Studies, Queer Theology, LGBT Studies, Gay Theology, LGBT Theology, etc., get a hold of Soulfully Gay and expand on its conception of Homophilia (or critique it, if you’re inclined, or both). What could be more important than contributing to knowledge of the completely marginalized and misunderstood conception that may be at the root of every religion’s secret core, aligned to Agape, Christ Principle, Creation, Involution, and Self-Immanence?

(It hasn’t been my calling to write an academic dissertation on the topic. It’s best if others play that part.)

This is a super important week in The Kalendar. At the center part of Station Eight (𝌄), the station linked to the causal state, the Archetype of the Hero, and the altitude of Overmind (Ultraviolet), Heterophilia and Homophilia appear at the Station of Haba (Love), forming the centerpoint of the entire Third Tier in the Month of the Violet Heart.

OCTOBER 19 – 23: THE HALF-WEEK OF HABA (ARABIC WORD FOR “LOVE” OR, ESOTERICALLY, “UNIVERSAL SUBSTANCE”), linked to the causal state and the Overmind or Audi-Mind structure, at the very centerpoint of the Third Tier, at the climax of the second act of the Hero’s Journey, the Throne of Health (𝍉).

OCTOBER 19: HETEROPHILIA (YANG-YANG) 𝍉⚌

OCTOBER 23: HOMOPHILIA (YUNG-YUNG) 𝍉𝌅

Heterophilia (the flow of Love from the direction of Source to other, outer-directed, hetero-sexual, heterogeneous): The Yang Master at the Seat of Structure at the Seat of Health in the Letter of Wholeness. The Yang-Yang lights the flame of Eros.

Homophilia (the flow of Love from the direction of Source to self, same, inner-directed, homo-sexual, homogeneous): The Yung Master at the Seat of Motion at the Seat of Health in the Letter of Wholeness. The Yung-Yung embraces All-That-Is with Agape.

At the centerpoint of the station, the Hub extends its Hug (𝍉⚏) to the Infinite, symbolized by the “8” at the 8th-person-perspective/Station Eight. This is the Yin-Yin of the Station of Health.

HOMOPHILIA AND WHOLENESS: Identical at the subtle description in Lingua-U to six marks of subtle energy. At the seventh and eighth marks, Heterophilia orients us with Yang-Yang energy to send “Him” to “Her”, and link “Her” (The Wife, Yin Master at the Seat of Basis of the Letter of Watching) to “Husband”. Whereas Homophilia unites all that has come before it, sealing the deal, giving the Hero his/her/their nature, completing the spiritual crisis from the Heights of Heaven to the Hole of Hell, bringing us to six degrees of Wholeness.

THE “HERO” APPEARS ON OCTOBER 23 FOR THE FIRST TIME, identical at the subtle description with Wholeness to six marks and to Homophilia with seven marks of subtle energy. The Hero’s Journey continues to ACT III, beginning with the step down from Wholeness to Halfness…

If you want to better understand the spiritual nature of Homophilia, one of the Two Prime Directions of Love, I recommend starting with “Soulfully Gay”.

Heterosexuals and homosexuals, heterophiles and homophiles, are you getting this yet? The Kalendar, adorned with the Lingua-U hieroglyphs depicting virtually every sound in every language in a Sacred Harmony, is the Integral Konstruct you have been waiting for.

Someone peeked at The Kalendar website and remarked that it was too complicated. I remarked that it was the simplest, least complex way I knew to tell a story that enfolded ALL OF LANGUAGE. Because if you don’t get TO THE OTHER SIDE OF LANGUAGE then you are sort of just linguistically masturbating, from a spiritual point-of-view. In other words, somebody’s gotta run through the maze of LANGUAGE to create a Meta-Map that allows everyone to start relating to LANGUAGE itself in a different way. That’s the goal, at any rate.

Same reason there are 243 different new articles, word affixes, and pronouns in Jai’ai. Could I have created fewer in the Konstruct? Of course, but fewer would have been no simpler, and a whole lot less elegant and useful. There are exactly 27 new such words for each of the Nine Stations, and each of those words is grammatically gendered to either Yang, Yin, or Yung. Thus, there are really only about 9 new words for each station, in three flavors apiece, and each station uses the same regular structure for these 9 new words. What looks like bewildering complexity on day one of a student’s studies will probably seem pretty elementary before too long.

A related concern is that Lingua-U seems “too heady”. This stems from a few factors, I think. No one has actually seen the Lingua-U book yet and they are skeptical of any philosophy or art with new words. It demands more work from them than a bumper sticker or Facebook-meme spirituality. But more to the root, people misunderstand language itself as “in the head”, when in fact it is our forgetfulness of the kinesthetic source of language (the mind/body connection) that is the problem. And Lingua-U is potentially a remedy for that problem because it’s a pictoral metalanguage using pictures of subtle energy patterns associated with phoneme production as its basis. Its metawords are pictures of embodied poses of the speech organs, not abstract principles. It’s ordinary language that has become too abstract, by mystifying the essential elements of speech. Lingua-U is a battering ram that over time if taught and taken to heart ought to radically simply speech and make it feel more natural, whole, and calm.

“Too heady” doesn’t quite cut it, but it won’t be to everyone’s tastes. It will take work to learn, and people do have a tendency to laziness.

I don’t want to suggest that learning Lingua-U will be easy. I don’t know what anyone else’s experience is like at this early stage in the process. But I can tell you that I am gambling that people are tired of quick fixes and easy answers and dumbed down philosophy. I think there’s a real hunger for depth out there. That’s why I’m writing a little bit every day on The Kalendar even though nobody has seen the Big Picture yet. It’s an epic work of art that needs to be painted one stroke at a time. When the depth is there — and this will take years of consistently daily blogs and new books — the people who hunger for such depth will come. I can’t wait to meet them!

What spiritual wisdom could seemingly be simpler or more profound than “Be Here Now”? Plenty, depending on your point of view. It’s perfectly fine advice at the third-person perspective (which recognizes the “I” or self perspective, the “You” or second-person perspective, and the “It” or “He/She/They” perspective).

But as the evolution of consciousness delivers the 4th, 5th, and subsequent levels of meaning-making … and as the Lingua-U metalanguage allows grammatical access to the subject/object/subject-objects of these higher levels, “Be Here Now” looks problematic, to say the least. It does not specify the subject of being, the nature of here-ness, or the nature of now-ness.

It is an undefined directive with no coordinates in Space, Time, or Thought indicated. That’s usually not a problem for most people, and it’s basically a spiritual cliche. But it’s a spiritual cliche that gets increasingly dangerous as one ascends in states from gross to subtle to causal … until finally, at nondual states it becomes too vague to be meaningful if you’re lucky or disastrous if you’re unlucky. Because no one in the 21st century should be navigating subtle, causal, or nondual states in a serious way — which by their nature are collective structures, not merely individual feelings — without a Kosmic Map which can help them to get a handle on the Whereness and Whenness of their state-journeys.

We have to be very careful with words in the Audi-Mind or Overmind, the period of time in which causal states are enduring and stable, establishing the territory in which the Letter of Watching, the Letter of Wholeness, and the Letter of Whirling are enacted at the Element of Vowel. Words at this time have the power to create or destroy, and it would be wise to avoid saying things that could have unanticipated consequences, even if those words seemed perfectly ordinary or even wise at earlier levels of development.

There are good reasons that the wise causal state realizers of the East counseled SILENCE. Silence per se isn’t an option for those on the path of Integral Magic, which taps the creative potentiality of The Word, grounded in a quietude of the heart. Just try not to fuck up the universe or multiverse while you’re getting your training wheels on, okay?

In plain language, the words you spoke when your highest self was an egoic mind don’t work anymore when you’re enacting Kosmos. Be careful with your speech.

I can’t tell you the words to use instead of “Be here now”… you must find the words for yourself. Our time is a better time for new mantras than old words.

In the Mythos of The Kalendar, every number has its own dignity and its own time for shaping and setting the stage for human activity.

The Kalendar starts with 0 at the start of 1 Common Era (CE), near to the birth of Christ in the West and the fall of the Han Dynasty in the East.

The First Millennium CE is linked to the number One and unary concepts such as the Tao. This period of history ended at 1000 CE.

The Second Millennium CE is linked to the number Two and binary concepts such as Yin and Yang. This period of history ended at 2000 CE.

The Third Millennium CE is linked to the number Three and ternary concepts such as Yang-Yin-Yung, the Trinity, and the Trimurti. We are in the first part of this period of time which will last until 3000 CE.

The Kalendar, which is based on a ternary worldview including a Map of subtle energies formulated in base-3 notation (Yang-Yin-Yung or 0-1-2), has an expiration date. As our current Millennium unfolds, its usefulness will likely increase and increase until it reaches a point of maximum utility, and then it will probably become less useful near the end of its run. Long before then, the number Four and quadratic concepts including subtle Maps set into a base-4 system will rise into prominence.

To understand our time, you must understand that the time of the binary worldview and all that it contains has expired. It is past its expiration date, indeed. The longer the world persists in dividing the Real into black and white, 0s and 1s, Yin and Yang, God and Creation, and so on, it is fighting the flow of consciousness as it expands into greater awareness and capacity for complexity.

We must move beyond Yin-Yang into a bold new world of Yang-Yin-Yung.

We must move beyond binary computational models and the logic of rigid polarities into the world of ternary computing and fuzzy logic.

We must move beyond a world where everyone’s gender is assumed to be either male or female, masculine or feminine, and move into a new world of masculine, feminine, and nonbinary.

We stand in need of worldviews capable of operating at a higher level of complexity. Unfortunately, language is a barrier. We must rewrite the source code of language as such in order to facilitate this movement into the Third Millennium CE and the arrival of new frontiers of consciousness.

Yes, this is a Mythos. But Mythos does not mean untrue. A Mythos is a set of myths or assumptions about the Real. Our time is not moving from false myths into true rationality; it is moving from one Mythos to another, more complex and complete and inclusive Mythos.

The Columns of the Integral Magic worldview are basically another way of looking at the spokes of the Enneagram, with a few differences. I am speaking here of the Enneagram in the abstract as a multivalent symbolic model of consciousness, not any particular teaching of the Enneagram which relates it to exoteric (personality) or esoteric (spiritual) dimensions of life.

The spokes connecting Enneagram stations 1 to 7 and 1 to 4 draw the First Column, though the Enneagram is missing the pathway from 4 to 7 (connecting the Element of Air to the Element of Galaxy). These stations have Yang at the second mark of subtle energy, indicating that a new Tier of consciousness is beginning.

The spokes connecting Enneagram stations 8 to 2 and 8 to 5 draw the Second Column; however, the Enneagram is missing the pathway from 2 to 5 (i.e., the link between the Elements of Wind and Fire to the Element of Earth). These stations have Yin at the second mark of subtle energy, indicating that a Tier of consciousness is maturing.

The triangle connecting Enneagram stations 3, 6, and 9 draw the Third Column. Here, the Enneagram is missing nothing. These stations have Yung at the third mark of subtle energy, indicating that a Tier of consciousness is coming to a conclusion.

The Enneagram also draws two short pathways that aren’t in the Three Columns: first, the path from 2 to 4, connecting the Elements of Wind and Fire to the Element of Air; second, the path from 5 to 7, connecting the Element of Earth to the Element of Galaxy.

The books and websites used for learning Jai’ai, the new language of Integral Magic, won’t be ready until next year. But if you’re eager to start learning, I recommend that you study Interlingua. As Wikipedia says:

Interlingua (/ɪntərˈlɪŋɡwə/; ISO 639 language codes ia, ina) is an Italic international auxiliary language (IAL), developed between 1937 and 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It ranks among the top most widely used IALs (along with Esperanto and Ido), and is the most widely used naturalistic IAL:[3] in other words, its vocabulary, grammar and other characteristics are derived from natural languages rather than a centrally planned grammar and vocabulary. Interlingua was developed to combine a simple, mostly regular grammar[4][5] with a vocabulary common to the widest possible range of western European languages,[6] making it unusually easy to learn, at least for those whose native languages were sources of Interlingua’s vocabulary and grammar.[7] Conversely, it is used as a rapid introduction to many natural languages.[3]

Interlingua literature maintains that (written) Interlingua is comprehensible to the hundreds of millions of people who speak Romance languages,[8] though it is actively spoken by only a few hundred.[1]

The name Interlingua comes from the Latin words inter, meaning between, and lingua, meaning tongue or language. These morphemes are identical in Interlingua. Thus, “Interlingua” would mean “between language”.

Jai’ai doesn’t reinvent the wheel. It is an EXTENSION of Interlingua. Some of the Interlingua vocabulary will be deprecated (deprived of endorsement) in the Jai’ai Dictionary, but only when Jai’ai has identified words that better express the sacred significance of the world’s Great Traditions. And of course, Jai’ai adds 243 new pronouns, word affixes, and articles to allow it to get the most out of the sacred insights of Lingua-U. All the essential ingredients of Integral philosophy will be “at the tip of your tongue” in Jai’ai, from Stations (which include both Structures/Stages and Types) to Seats (which includes Zones and Lines), all of which can be accessed phonetically with words that enact the spiritual attributes of the appropriate Sacred Words. All of the nine distinct person-perspectives (Stations) have 27 unique words of their own for constructing meaningful new words or sentences.

I’ll explain in more detail why I chose Interlingua over Esperanto and other alternatives at another time, but it wasn’t a hard decision. There is no other significant IAL based on natural languages … and natural languages are the “raw material” of the world’s Great Traditions. Unfortunately for our purposes, Interlingua’s vocabulary was chosen for purposes that are not identical with Jai’ai’s, and so we will be adding a lot of specialized words for spiritual and philosophical discussion, including more vocabulary derived from Sanskrit, Hebrew, Mandarin, and Arabic. The basic set of pronouns of Interlingua have been superceded with Jai’ai’s 81 new pronouns.

Meanwhile, your study of Interlingua will not be wasted. Enjoy the language study.

First off, Lingua-U is not a language, it’s a metalanguage. No one is going to SPEAK in Lingua-U. (There’s Jai’ai for that.)

Lingua-U is a METHODOLOGY for understanding the sacred significance of human utterance in comparative perspective. Through its use, one can become more proficient in speaking about spiritual and philosophical matters in ANY religion.

The goal of this new metalanguage is not to build an army of new language speakers; it is to push the edge of human linguistic evolution in a manner that brings all that is truly sacred closer together in harmony.

If people choose to adopt Jai’ai because they like it, they’re the “power users” or “early adopters” of new linguistic technology. Hey, Jai’ai gives us 243 new articles, word affixes, and pronouns that we can “mix and match” with any other language we choose — what’s not to love about that! You can toss Jai’ai into English or Spanish or Chinese like croutons on a salad. Or build a whole salad out of Jai’ai greens, your choice.

The truth about Magic is most people don’t have the consciousness to access its potential in a way that serves the best interest of humankind and the world. This isn’t because they aren’t smart enough. They just don’t have the moral imagination of utter selflessness at their disposal.

Without utter selflessness, one will attempt to exploit the magical potentialities of existence in a manner that could cause more harm than good. Magic is aligning with and making manifest the Will, but it is not the individual will; it is the Will of the conscious-through-Us Kosmos, God’s Will.

There may be phases in our development as Magicians in which we need to practice in a self-interested fashion, but we need to be careful. We can’t allow ourselves to linger too long in the attempt to fulfill our wishes or secure material transformations to give ourselves privileges that we choose not to give to others.

If you are inclined to ask a Magician, “What does this method do? What’s in it for me?”, then sadly you haven’t progressed to the point where you can really serve the World through Magic.

The Magician responds to your question: “Do this, and it will make you a less selfish person. Your desires will seem insignificant compared to the pressing need to transform the World to a more magnificent place.”

Does that appeal to you? If not, you can always study more selfish forms of magic, but I can’t help you.

Study Magic to learn how to see the World in a magical way and transmit a healthy, well-integrated, and magical worldview to others. When you see the World’s magic as part of whole integrated worldview, you will simply transmit Magic by who you are, once you let yourself be the way you want to be.

Magic shouldn’t be your only spiritual practice. The way I think about it is that Integral Magic is primarily a way of supporting an Integral life practice at Station One, Station Six, and Station Seven. You need other methodologies to work your other Stations of Life.

Few people are ready for an Integral Magic at this point in history, and that’s okay. It is an elite practice and will be until it isn’t anymore, and the World we inhabit is more divinized and enchanted by our works.

The Witness or Will (𝍅) is Yang to the Yin of (𝍆), which may be pronounced as either Oneness or The Word. The usual understanding is that Witnessing generates a causal state of Oneness, which is a via negativa (negative path) to realization. The /n/s in Oneness return The Way to the Letter of Negativity at the previous Station. The orthodox Buddhist understanding of Witness is accurate enough, but it is a “backwards” move, one which can be falsely understood as meaning “there is no more, nothing more to be realized”. But the Word’s /r/ phoneme is a forward-looking ascent to the next Station, which is associated with nonduality. The RD in Word returns the Witness to Duality via (Nondual) Realization, as it were.